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Why Time Flies is the funny, surprising, often moving, and always insightful story of one man''s effort to master his internal clocks. In form, it is also a mixture of science reportage, essay, and cultural critique. Make no mistake, you''ll never look at a clock the same way again.
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Alan Burdick is a staff writer and former senior editor at The New Yorker and a frequent contributor to Elements, the magazine's science-and-tech blog. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, GQ, Discover, Best American Science and Nature Writing, and elsewhere. His first book, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion, was a National Book Award finalist and won the Overseas Press Club Award for environmental reporting.
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A witty, surprising, often moving and always insightful work of scientific writing that will ensure you never look at a clock the same way again.For more than two thousand years the world's great minds have argued about the true essence of time. Is it finite or infinite? Is it continuous or discrete? Does it flow like a river or is it granular, proceeding in small bits like sand trickling through an hourglass? And most immediately, what is the present?What is time, exactly? Why does it seem to slow down when we're bored and speed by as we get older? How and why does time fly?In this witty and meditative exploration, Alan Burdick takes readers on a personal quest to understand how and why we perceive time the way we do. He visits the most accurate clock in the world (which exists only on paper); discovers that 'now' actually happened a split-second ago; finds a twenty-fifth hour in the day; lives in the Arctic to lose all sense of time; and, for one fleeting moment in a neuroscientist's lab, even makes time go backwards. Why Time Flies is a vivid and intimate examination of the clocks that tick inside us all. Are we born into time, or is time born into us? Alan Burdick takes readers on a quest to understand the clocks that tick inside us all - what time is and how we perceive it. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781925603064
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